Course Number: MSE 601 Course Units: 1-8 Instructor Staff Course Format Course may be repeated for credit. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for master’s degree. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis Prerequisites Graduate standing in engineering. Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the field adviser

Course Number: MSE 298 Course Units: 1-8 Instructor Staff Course Description Advanced study in various subjects through special seminars on topics to be selected each year, informal group studies of special problems, group participation in comprehensive design problems or group research on complete problems for analysis and experimentation Course Format Course may be repeated for credit. Must […]

Course Number: MSE 296B Course Units: 1-2 Instructor Staff Course Description This is the second semester of a two-course sequence for those majors in the five year BS/MS program. Students are expected to complete an independent research project under the supervision of a research advisor initiated in Materials Science and Engineering 296A. This course will meet once […]

TCourse Number: MSE 261C Course Units: 3 Instructor: Professor S. W. Lee (Dept. of Bioengineering), Professor Junqiao Wu Course Description: This is an introductory course for students interested in the highly interdisciplinary field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This course is divided into three modules, each lasting 1/3 of the semester: Physics of Nanomaterials (hard nanomaterials), Biological Nanomaterials (soft […]

Course Number: MSE 251 Course Units: 3 Instructor: Professor T. Xu Course Description: This 3-unit (two 1.5hr lectures per week) course is designed for graduate students to gain a fundamental understanding of the surface and interfacial science of polymeric materials. Beginning with a brief introduction of the principles governing polymer phase behavior in bulk, it develops the thermodynamics […]